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. $10,000 insurance,”
{oosier Vagabond
- WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACHHEAD FORCES IN ITALY, April 21 (By Wireless).
—Lt. Eugene Tousineau of Detroit is the offi
Commerce. He visits every ship as soon as it the key to the city.” Most of his guests would prefer being ridden out of town on a rail. He's the guy who checks the cargo of every incoming ship and checks daily on the
progress and the quality of their unloading. (editor's note—landing craft, vehicles, personnel) climbing rope ladders up the sides of
cial greeter for the new Anzio Chamber of ps anchor in Anzio waters, and “extends
All
day long he rides around in an LCVP
ships, snaking back down on single ropes—just holding on with his hands while his bouncing steel boat tries to crush him. “I've got he laughs. Al day he is out there on the water with shells speckling the whole area. I wouldn't have his job for a million dollars. But he enjoys it. I rode around with him one day seeing how + the ships unload, seeing how it feels to be sitting there at anchor aboard a ship full of explosives within range of enemy artillery. It
enough on a certain ship, he'll say
Up Front With Mauldin
e Indianapolis
imes
SECOND SECTION
Shift Nearer Indian Action Seen as Symptom of
‘Aggressiveness.’
By A. T. STEELE Times Foreign Correspondent CALCUTA, India, April 21— The announcement that Maj. Gen. George Stratemeyer has jumped his eastern air command headquarters 1000 miles closer to the front is another symptom of the increasingly
of Bengal, reflects the official con-
MOVE COMMAND {UP 1000 MILES, ON EAST FRONT
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1944
Indiana Bell Employees Display Flag Symbolizing Security
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STATE SCOUT COUNCILS CITE LIEBER'S WORK
Debt of Gratitude for System of Parks Is Acknowledged.
In a tribute to Richard Lieber, founder of Indiana's state park system, who died Saturday, the scout councils of Indiana today expressed their appreciation to him for providing facilities for the nature study and field and woodland ‘activities o the Boy Scout program. : “Through the vision and foresight
Queen to Reign
“Value Now Evident
} of Col. Lieber and at his instigaILORS! doesn't feel too good. aggressive allied attitude in this tion,” the tribute read, “there was hp Tousisiesu bas heen on this theater, despite recent Jap penetra- founded 28 years ago in Indiana a 'RETS! or six weeks. He is an ebullient tions ‘into India’s : i state park system which has since . fellow who insists on enjoying : & - whatever he does regardless, be- Bot iheasterns Indiana Bell Telephone Co. safeguarding employees, plants Evansville, H. W. Hilderbrand, Biren 1 Yonswiie Jovoravle a LLBOXES! cause he gets a great kick out of it. The transfer of plant representatives from Indi apg facilities in wartime. Indianapolis north, C. L. RaW- |. on 0 commonwealths He goes aboard ships and serves Stratemeyer’s big anapolis and outstete areas dis- Left to right: O. O. Bose, gen- lings, South Bend, E. D. White, | “And due to the continuin in- ‘ notice to ship's officers. He bawls Stall from News play the flag symbolizing the aor of elidinge Muncie, I. V. Green, Indianapolis |, % 5 OF CRY THE ALF-HATSI out some people even though he's Dorit o om National Security award which eral supervisor of buildings and gyn; and Ci¥¥ence A. Jackson, |“ 2 vg ership of Col. Lieber, only a second lieutenant, and com- india’ een aw was presented to the company supplies, - Indianapolis; ~ district director, Indiana state defense |r : am : parks, well-distributed ’ ’ th oth who havi Tien 5 Tigr to. yesterday in recognition of out- plant superintendents A. H. council, who presented the security |)roushout the state, now comALOTSI | Miseates - ho ers x sav the Calcutta area, standing accomplishments in Huber, central, J. C. Gillam, flags. | prises some 40,000-odd acres of field n wled out by somebody th almost at the ® : ‘and woodland of choicest natural |G BRIMSI! me Te Bits aren't going well shore of the Bay | beauty and charm, ’
to the army officer in charge, “No excuse for this, sir,” and never bat an eye, But that's the way wars are won. \ Riding around with us that day was Lt. John Coyle of Philadelphia who is learning the game. Our supply shipping has become so thick that the checking job is too much for one man, so the two will divide it between them in the future.
Hairbreadth Harry Escapes
LT. TOUSINEAU has had dozens of’ Hairbreadth Harry escapes. Shells explode in the water, bombs drop beside his house at night. He has even climbed off a ship just a few minutes before it was hit. Before the war, Lt. Tousineau was a night-club manager, a sandhog and numerous other things. He is tall and dark, has a very long and narrow face and a little pencil mustache, and looks like the Anzio edition of Cesaer Romero. He calls himself the “bad boy” of his regiment. “1 get a commendation one day and a reprimand the next,” he says. “The colonel will commend me for good work under dangerous conditions and then I'll go to Naples and get ticketed for having my hands in my pockets.” But that's the army, and Tousineau can take it. » - » THE LIEUTENANT has a crew of four soldiers who run his boat. The former crew, according to the lieutenant, got “Anzio anxiety” and took off, so he picked his own men. Volunteers for the boat job were called for. Nobody volunteered. So four men were assigned. Now that they've got the hang of it, everybody else in the company is mad at himself for not volunteering, for it’s a soft job. All they do all day long is ride around
“I need a couple guys what don’t owe me no money for a little
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routine patrol”
Anzio. They learned by trying. “We didn't know nothin’ from sour apples about a boat,” said Pvt. James Davis, a farm boy from Covert, Mich. “but we went along.” : Later, as we lay alongside a British ship, I heard Davis say, “Let's go ashore onto that boat.” Such nautical sabotage as that would turn Adm. Dewey over in his gave, i The coxswain of the boat (the guy who drives it) is Pfc. Arthur Handy of Fellows, Cal., down in the oil field district near Taft. - Handy spent years learn-
viction that any Mr. Steele danger of a large-scale Jap invasion of India—so threatening two years ago—is pretty definitely past. The present Jap operation, though serious, is limited in scope. It would take a vastly bigger army than the Japanese are now employing in Manipur and Assam to launch an invasion big enough to threaten India’s major centers of wealth and population.
PRINCESS IS OLD
ENOUGH TORULE
Elizabeth, 18 Today, Goes With Royal Family to See Guard Change.
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—Prin-
All Part of Plan Stratemeyer’s transfer is part of! a long-planned general forward! movement of operational bases, which was climaxed last week with,
ing how to be a sailor by driving a truck in the oil fields. ! One of the “seamen” is Pfc. Nicholas Kardos, of | Chicago His nickname is “Rabbit” and he used to be a punch-press operator.
William Was a Welder ‘
THE OTHER is Pfc. William Lipiczky, of Cleveland. His ancestry is a combination of Russian and Hungarian, and the others call him “Hunky” a welder, ; When these soldiers first started learning how to run a boat they sometimes got seasick, but they don't} any more. And they have become fairly indifferent to shells toa. They don’t even wear their steel helmets half the time. When shells begin coming too close, Pyt. Davis | will remark:
the removal of Lord Louis Mountbatten’s headquarters from New! Delhi to Ceylon, off the southern | tip of the Indian peninsula. Two years ago both Calcutta and! Ceylon were under imminent peril of Jap invasion. It is significant of India's im-|
He was Proved military position and qver- in the absence of the king from his {all change from the defensive lo the realm, The princess henceforth will have a small personal staff consist-!
offensive psychology that these two centers are now the main bases for! present and future operations. i It may look funny to some that] Mountbatten and Stratemeyer, who! were together in Delhi, are now
cess Elizabeth observed her 18th birthday in accordance with wartime austerity today by watching the grenadier guards, of which she is colonel-in-chief, change guard somewhere in the country. From this day on, should her father die, Elizabeth would become queen of England. : Had this occurred before today, the duke of Gloucester would have become regent. The house of commons made Elizabeth a member of the councillors of state who serve
ing of a controller, secretary and
lady-in-waiting. Gets Birthday Gift
She was accompanied to thei
imore than 1000 miles apart at Cey- grenadier guard encampment by the |
Af Coronation
MISS EILEEN REDMON, prom queen, will reign at the corcna-
tion ceremonies of the Decatur |
Central high school prom tomorrow night at the school. Miss Redmon, assisted by Robert Moore, junjor class president, will crown her attendants Misses Doris Frazier, Opal Phillips, Margaret Barnett, Carol Cox, Emily Neuman and Audrey: Amos.
Eileen Redmon
Jack Barry and his orchestra will play. The arrangements commitiee members are Misses Margaret
Frazier, Margaret Rosner, Virginia Moore, Carol Cox, Helen Hamilton and Pat Carr.
toria Stevens are the junior class sponsors.
BOY, 14, SENTENCED FOR STEALING AUT
Mrs, | Catherine Copeland and Miss Vic- |
RENT CONTROL HEADS CONFE
Kennedy, OPA Regional Chief, Addresses Meeting Here.
“Already these parks and pretserves have proven their worth as |& means for the promotion of Boy Scout programs, including camping, {nature study and other opportuni {ties for worthwhile achievement. “It is, therefore, our desire to acknowledge formally the debt of {gratitude this and future genera|tions of our citizens in their Boy Scout age owe and will continue to ove the memory of Col. Lieber.” Rent cont was dred 5 mn William J. Kennedy, OPA regional! councils.
rent gost tol execylive of Cleveland, | The park board yesterday adopted as a “preventive medicine to SOP , resolution eulogizing Richard what might have been the worst Lieber, father of the Indiana park epidemic of inflation this country system, who died Saturday. | has ever experienced,” in an address! “Those who plan parks and recHiere today. jreation for Indianapolis of the fu- { Y : ture, will miss deeply the wisdom | He spoke at a meeting of 35 In- of Mr Lieber,” the resolution stated. |diana rent directors, attorneys, ex-| Mr. Lieber's death leaves vacant laminers and inspectors at the dis-|the chairmanship of the Post-War trict OPA office, 420 N. Pennsyl-| Planning committee's sub-commit-yo | tee on parks and recreation. A sucvania st. {cessor has not yet been appointed Mr. Kennedy said rent control py Post-War Chairman George A. {was one of the most important fac- gyhn, , itors in civilian contribution to the,
me nd wr an vee DRYS HERE TO MEET NATIONAL CANDIDATE
{ Cites Morale Factor | Dr. Claude E. Watson of Los An-
i “The soldiers’ families can cut down on food costs but there is no; {way to economize on rent in crowd-|
“For a month I've been telling that fellow: to take lon and Calcutta. But it makes king and queen, the duke of Glou-| A 14.year-old Indianapolis boy | a furlough and go to Rome and have himself a time. sense. |cester, the princess royal and Prin-| gn, pegan stealing automobiles the .But he doesn’t seem to get my message.” | jcess Margaret, and received a silk|g me day he was given a suspended
|Teplica of the king's colors of the | sentence in juvenile court last week
ed war areas,” he said. “When our geles, the national Prohibition parsoldiers and sailors can know that|ty’s candidate for President, will artheir families are protected both rive here tomorrow for a two-day
by rent ceilings. and provisions! conference with party members. He Mountbatten’s primary interest is first battalion as a birthday present) wa sent to the state boys’ school in | 383inst evictions, they are better will be registered at the Claypool {amphibious operations against the from the regiment.
| juvenile court today. | fighters.” | hotel. : major Japanese bases of Southeast| A number of United States offi-|" pm. ag captured by state police] Mr. Kennedy said up to April 1,| Mr. Watson is outlining his proAsia. Ceylon’s naval facilities are! cers were among the small BTOUP | ot Columbus, after a wild chase more than 21,000 petitions had been gram on a tour throughout the far superior to those of India. (of guests who witnessed the cere-| .. highways in one of several filed for rent adjustments in this| country. He has said that the obMoreover, Ceylon is only 800 miles mony and the presentation of the| ars he is alleged to have stolen |e Of these, 11,000 rent increases| jective of his campaign is to unite from the Andaman islands, 1200 colors. | since he walked out of juvenile court | Were authorized on petitions of] the church vote for moral and politmiles from Sumatra and less than! Wearing her favorite hyacinth |; week ago. property owners and several thou-| ical reform “to save democracy here 2000 miles from Singapore — the blue coat with a military-style| ge was arraigned in juvenile
sand adjustments were made on at home while our boys are fightfocal point of Japan's Southeast Peaked cap, the princess came onto!court April 12 when he was given |COmPlaints of tenants. [ng Jog ib yvergoas” . Mrs. Ashworth, what a dirty trick to play on us! How Asia defenses. i | the pesae Seow with he other 5 one-year suspended sentence and | Alcoholism, he has said, has could yout And as for you, readers, don't strain your Mountbatten's shift to Ceylon members of the royal family. {released on probation. Last ~% REES T0 ADDRESS
in this boat and dodge a shell now and then,
None of them knew anything about boats before Point Toward Singapore
April 30. 1 Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
GEORGE BRUBAKER, attorney for the employment security division, was aboard a College ave. . streetcar the other day and noticed a big sign on a building near 19th st. The sign read: “Big Capebart meeting here tonight.” Two soldiers, apparently unfamiliar with the Hoosier political ‘scene, were in the seat opposite George. One of them looked at the sign and asked: “What's a Capehart?” Replied the other: “Some kind of a chicken, I think.” ...One of our readers, Marian
it would be easier to pocket $2 and divide the remaining $3 among the three men, which he did. Now; that made the rooms cost the men $9 each, instead of the $§10—or a total of $27. The bellboy kept $2, which makes $20. Now where is the other dollar?” Oh,
hoes
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2 in black or is a spectator
islowed down production and rebrain too much on this one. We hope to have the does not necessarily mean that am-| As the old and new guard, both vember he was in court for failure to
| tarded the training program in our answer in time to print it tomorrow. But don't tell Phibious operations are imminent, from the grenadiers, faced each| attend school and,was released on | {army camps and is delaying the us—let us guess. ’ As a matter of fact, with the ap- Other and presented arms. Elizabeth | probation then.
HOLINESS MEETING speedy victory for which all Chris- | proach of the monsoons the Bay of Went forward alone to receive the, | A Greasy Vest
tian Americans are praying.
Bengal will develop heavy swels, | miniature colors from Col. John!
low heel baby
Parker, postcards that, “Believe it or not, Julius Caesar filed an income tax return from a local ad-
THE GREASE collection campaign out at Tech wasn't going very good until the school's service club, the campaign sponsor, thought up the idea of “Elmer.”
which’ would make landings with| small boats extremely difficult. However, Mountbatten's presence in
Prescott, | The replica, measuring 19 by 21 inches, was made of crimson silk
Pickpocket Victim
| The Rev. Paul Rees, popularly known as the “prince of preachers,” author, lecturer and pastor of the Covenant tabernacle of Min-
Yanks at Anzio
{with a crown embroidered in gold|
dress.” Sure—Wasn't it the Ides of March? P, 8S The telephone book shows the address as 6315 N. Delaware. . . Maj, Elmer W, (Doc) Sherwood, public relations officer out at Ft. Harrison, went to St. Vincent's hospital last Saturday morning to give a pint of blood to the hospital's blood bank. When the blood had been taken, Maj, Sherwood remarked that he felt fine, then he fainted. He wound up by being given a transfusion of two pints to replace the pint he had donated, according to reliable informants. He explains that the fainting was the result of an upset stomach, which in turn resulted from irregular meals while his wife was out of town. . . . Capt. Robert W. Toning Jr, formerly a shop foreman at the Beech Grove shops, is back home on leave from Iran where he has been with a railway battalion,
The ‘Going Nuts’ Dept.
WE WERE GOING along just minding our busjness when blooje!—the mailman up and handed us a letter from Mrs. Walter Ashworth of Columbus, Ind. She writes: “The arithmetic on the next page is about to drive me nuts. Can you have someone find where the $1 goes?” We turned the page and read the fol-
As produced by Program Director Chelsea S. Stewart's C¢¥1on. in conjunction with the re-
department, “Elmer” stands on the campus, and every cent announcement that a substanpound of grease delivered to the school results in a tial Brifish naval force is now stagrease spot on his vest. The first day. he received tioned in the Indian ocean. cerfainly ition ees ietramrerenes Whitesville, Ky.. farmer, despite six spots. The next day 75 were added. Yesterday, brightens hopes for increased naval RESIGNS COURT POST | the recent loss of $2600 to a pickthere were 400 more. And now it looks as if the 1000 8ctiVity in this theater. | Richard J. Lowther. 4475 Marcy, Pocket, was convinced today that mark will be passed by Monday. ... The Indiana Calcutta is a better base for === ° resigned as first assistant| there's still a lot of good people History Bulletin, published by the Indiana Historical Stratemeyer's headquarters because fy, i" 'enorter of the supreme and 1 the world. Bureau, takes the state to task for its neglect of its i is closer to the land-fighting | appeliate courts to accept a position’ Westerfield had $80-in-gifts-to state museum. “The collection,” the Bulletin com- Burma with which British and hv pea lant here. He had| start a second life savings from ments, “has consisted, for the most part, of objects American ground-based aircraft are| == oo co Thi the Gate moe! an Evansville merchant, another given to the museum by people who did not care to chiefly concerned. Calcutta had be-) oo 50000" 040 resident and a club. He also had keep them: consequently it 1s smothered with miscel- {come an important center of Amer- ! : a job in an Evansville factory. laneous junk moved from one place to another as its ican activity even before Strate- BRITISH LORD DIES The money filched by the pickspace was required for current state business. It has meyer's arrival. LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—Lord| pocket was an he received from never been properly exhibited, it has never had much| It looks as if the process of Amer-| © “oo” oo 0 pol London hospital| the sale of his farm and which he scientific or educational value, and some of the things icanization to which the city has nes, n a London 05D yl to use to Durchase another place near Spencer.
Get Beer Supply
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, April 21 (U. P).— Among the supplies which reached the Anzio beachhead today were 20,000 gallons of American made beer. concocted in Naples under the supervision of an ex-St. Louis brewmaster. Allied headquarters disclosed that a batch of the spring brew already has reached the 5th army troops on the beachhead front and that additional supplies will be rationed to other American soldiers in Italy as soon as the army brewers can catch up with the demand. The beer, first to be issued to the doughboys in Italy, was made in accordance with American recipes under the direction of Lt. Allan J. Barney of St. Louis, a
neapolis, will address the Holiness convention this evening in the Roberts Park Methodist church. Tomorrow evening the convention will combine with Youth for Christ, Inc, which meets every Saturday evening in the church. Convention sessions will close Sunday. At--the evangelistic meeting last night at the Holiness convention, Free Methodist Bishop C. V. Fairbairn spoke of world chaos and the sacrifice of the “flower of a generation.” Then he extolled Jesus Christ as the “greatest authority in spiritual and human - psychology” who touches the source of all suffering, the human heart.
Gets Money, Job | (thread. In each corner was Eliza- |
'beth’s monogram, surmounted by| EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 21 ‘her coronet also in gold thread. | (U. P).—Kernie B. Westerfield,
given to it have been misplaced or lost.” The Bulletin been subjected will be intensified. 1098Y. Ho Jind been 2 de eo, der suggests the different collections be segregated into Copyright. 1944. by The Indianapolis Times n the house of lords since : groups which will “serve specific purposes as well as| #og The Chicaso DULY Nevns cater to the curiosity of sightseers and their babies. | The engineer would not go for information about his| work to a corridor where a huge stuffed hog crowds! an early engine into a dust bin, nor would a geologist come to the museum to study mineralogical re-,
AUXILIARY PLANS PARTY The auxiliary of © Burns-West-Striebeck post No. 2999, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold a public lcard party at-the hall, E. Washing-
Japs Using American Prisoners of War As Coolies on Defense Jobs, 'Katie' Says
RFUL
ocks
Years
hambrays, broad-
‘in stripes, floral
of the
lowing problem: “Three men rented a room at $10 each. Total, of course, $30. The clerk decided that .was too much to charge. The men had left so he called the bellboy over, told him to take $5 and divide it between the three men, The bellboy decided
My Day
WASHINGTON, Thursday—Yesterday afternoon we went to a tea given by George Carlin of United Feature Syndicate, and Mrs. Carlin. There were a number of interesting people there and I was happy to have this opportunity to see them. In the evening I attended a special showing of three plays produced by “Stage for Action.” This group decided some time ago that we have a real need for informed and active citizens in this country, and that one way to give people information is to do it painlessly, through the drama. They decided that if the plays were good, people woulds enjoy- them, but they would also get the point and go out and work in their communiy ties on the problenis presented. They use a little of the technique of the “living newspaper,” and the audience is made to feel very ‘much a pdrt of the show because its members speak up and take part in the discussion of what is going on on the stage. Hel - Not long ago, while giving a play at one of the SerViosmen' centers, one of the boys who was not part
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way that is hard to do through the written word, ex-
‘by’ Arthur Miller, over the radio. Mr. March was one spoke up from the audience. It started a
sources where a few odd stones are piled in with
ladies fans. . . . There ought to be a historical mu-'°" and Denny sts, at 8:30 p. m.
seum and a separate museum of natural resources and science.” Personally, we think the Bulletin has a good idea. Now we know what to do with some of] those old heirlooms around the house,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing they didn't tell us last night was whether the actors persuaded the man in the audience that their point of view was the right one! Much help from the theater group in the way of writers, musicians and actors has been extended to the four moving spirits of the organization: Donna Keath, who is the chairman; Perry Miller, the executive secretary; Berrilla Kerr, production manager, and Ella Goldin, the treasurer, They do not receive salaries, but they would like to be able to have an office of their own and a couple of people on salary who could devote all their time to spreading this activity throughout the nation and establishing it on a firm basis in headquarters in New York City. They raised some money last night, but I hope many more people will be willihg to help them. The drama can make situations real to people in a
cept to people who are accustomed to learning that way.. Perhaps these scripts produced on the stage will also be given over the radio. Fredric March ‘told me last night that he had given one of the plays, titled “That They May Win,”
of the contributors last night. It is a great credit
to these young people in the theater who .want.to do
as work in their own pro-' ing hash
tomorrow.
By WALTER RUNDLE ! United Press Staff Correspondent |
DETAIL FOR TODAY Hash Marks
HASH MARKS are stripes worn on the lower sleeve to denote years of service in the army. One “hitch,” or three-year period of enlistmént, entitles a soldier to one hash mark. You may wonder, when you see a soldier with a number of hash marks on his sleeve, how he has stood it so long. Often he wonders, too. It is rare to see a master sergeant without at least one hash mark. Many of the men who were in the first draft, and expected to be back in a year,” will soon be wearsh marks, which may be
CHUNGKING, April 21.—~American war prisoners in Japan are being used as coolies to perform heavy, dirty work on the waterfronts. Japanese live in constant dread 'of aerial attagk, which they fully expect in 1944. Strict blackouts are enforced nightly in Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama and other cities. Strict censorship withholds all news of Japanese military reverses from the people.
Queer Shelters
This, in part, was the picture. of Japan given me by an alert, intelligent Chinese girl who has just arrived in Chungking after a difficult round trip to Japan, and whom I shall call Katie Chen, “Tokyo is full of funny type air raid shelters,” she said. “Every few yards on every street you see {holes in the pavement. They are {about five feet deep and five feet | square, with the top uncovered. Besides each one is a sign which| says. “Air raid shelter—four persons.” She said she saw American prisoners of war doing coolie work on the docks. “Qutside Kobe I saw American prisoners in -sampans,”. she said. “They were dressed in‘ rags, and were loading coal steamers. I
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Katie Chen
A Chinese girl, who for security reasons must be known only as “Katie Chen,” has reached free China after spending six weeks in Japan. She visited Kobe, Yokohama, Tokyo and Myanoshita, a mountain resort. In the accompanying dispatch, she describes wartime Japan.
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but I observed them from the deck of a ship. The Japanese told me American soldiers captured in the Southwest Pacific were being used as coolies in practically every port of Japan.”
She said the Japanese are con-|.
vinced their home islands will be attacked from the air this yedr.
Advised to Leave
“Friends all advised me to leave Japan before spring,” she said. “One girl, a member of a prominent Japanese family, said: ‘We're afraid the same thing will happen to Tokyo that's happening to Berlin'.” Everywhere in Japan, she said, the visitor is conscious of the numerous war wounded. ra “People on the street must bow to them to
show their Yespect,” she / to the,
former brewery chemist.
TITO HALTS NAZIS
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).--Mar-shal Josip (Tito) Broz ‘hurled his partisan forces into a quick coun-ter-offensive in Montenegro today after smashing a German drive in the Niksic area and halting all other Nazi attacks on the Yugoslav front.
ymany little boxes containing the {ashes of Japanese war dead. “It is not an uncommon sight to | see people carrying such boxes on | trains and trams. “At Kobe, I saw a funeral cere{mony lasting all afternoon. Appar- | ently it was for a general.”
Few Men Seen
She said there were few men on | the streets of Japanese cities except {boys under 17, the wounded, tke {aged and a few businessmen. She said there appeared to be an “obvious distrust” among Japanese for their German allies.
“I was repeatedly warned not to talk to Gérmans,” she said. “In the Imperial hotel at Tokyo I was told to be most careful of my conversation lest I be overheard by Germans.” Miss Chen said she saw nothing in Japan to support the theory that Japan may collapse internally at an early date. “Instead,” she said, “it is my impression that the Japanese will make a long, hard fight. The average Japanese is reasonably well fed and still confident that the Japanese armies aré winning. . “They have all been impressed! PF that if they do not win, they will be! crushed as a nation.” (The dispatch, apparently for security reasons, did not explain how the girl was able to achieve